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It is Tuesday night. 9:40. The house is finally quiet. Your laptop is open at the kitchen table, and there are forty-seven submissions in the queue. You are on number twenty-three.

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Maya's essay is good. Not “good for this hour.” Good. The argument builds. The evidence lands. One sentence makes you stop and read it twice.